Culture
By Susana Samhan Los Angeles (EFE).- To get to where the action is at the Oscars gala, guests first have to ride a creaky escalator into the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California, which sits inside a somewhat outdated shopping mall. The theater in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard this...
New Delhi, Mar 13 (EFE).- India woke up ecstatic on Monday after two films from the country ended up with wins at the Oscars, accounting for the country’s sixth and seventh Academy Awards in all. The song “Naatu Naatu” from the movie “RRR” won the Best Original Song, while “The...
Tokyo, Mar 13 (EFE).- Japanese novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate and peace activist Kenzaburo Oe has died at the age of 88, his publishing house announced on Monday. Oe passed away due to old age in the early hours of Mar. 3, Kodansha said in a statement. His family...
Los Angeles, US, Mar 12 (EFE).- Michelle Yeoh on Sunday became the first Asian in Oscars history to win the best actress gong as “Everything Everywhere All At Once” swept the 95th Annual Academy Awards, taking home seven awards, including best film. The plot of the film centers on a...
Kabul, Mar 8 (EFE).- A former director of the provincial education department working at a carpet factory in Kabul is a symbol of several generations of women who have been banished from society with the arrival of the Taliban in power. “When there is no access to education and work...
By Rosa Diaz Barcelona, Spain, Mar 7 (EFE).- RM, the lead singer of K-pop supergroup BTS, would love to one day collaborate with Spanish star Rosalía – his favorite Spanish singer – but with his mandatory military service in South Korea approaching, he will not be taking on any projects...
Toledo, Spain (EFE).- Archeologists in Spain have discovered cold water pools, known as frigidarium, at an ancient Roman bath house in the central city of Toledo. The pools, which have “important” decorative elements and date from the second century AD, cover an estimated area of 3,000 square meters, lead archaeologist...
Los Angeles, United States, Mar 5 (EFE).- Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won the award for best original screenplay for their film «Everything Everywhere All at Once» at the 75th edition of the awards organized by the Writers Guild of America. The institution, which presented its trophies to the...
Cairo, Mar 2 (EFE).- Egyptian antiquities authorities on Thursday said they had detected a corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza that might lead to the funeral chamber of the pharaoh Khufu, which to this day has never been found. The minister for tourism and antiquities Ahmed Issa told a...
Sydney, Australia, Mar 2 (EFE).- The University of Cambridge will return four aboriginal spears brought to the United Kingdom when Captain James Cook and his crew first came into contact with an indigenous community in Sydney upon arrival in Australia in 1770, official sources reported Thursday. These artifacts are the...
Valladolid, Spain, Mar 1 (EFE).- Young people from a small town in central Spain are spending their afternoons spinning records and mixing tunes at the country’s first publicly funded electronic music school. The «Who is in da school» project came about when DJ María Arias decided to focus all of...
Madrid (EFE).- Spanish News Agency EFE will attend the World News Media Congress, organized by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which will take place in Zaragoza from September 28-30 to analyze and discuss the future of journalism. Recent events in Europe have put the spotlight on fresh challenges...
